Well...don't know if you're at the point where less than $100/hr would still make you happy, but the consulting firm b works for now is always looking and has told him if he knows anyone to pass them on.
Just wasn't sure if you'd consider the job 'up to your standards' so to speak. *hugs*
On the other hand, not being a 22-year-old who went to MIT doesn't necessarily make you incapable of doing good work. What kind of idiots are doing hiring these days? (And where did that joker go to school, I'd like to know!)
For him, certification trumps a perfomance history, and I can see why. Betting on well managed MIT grad types generally has good results, and it cuts the workload down to around a hundred resumes a year with under a dozen offsite presentations. As long as Oracle has the money to buy the MIT kids away from other occupations, it should work out very well for this guy.
He's got a pattern that works, and requires very little skill or effort. Can't say I would change things if I were in his shoes.
He's on top, so his schooling either "led to where he is" or is "an obstical he overcame". Yay for spin doctoring.
Don, I had a long conversation with a late-40-something computer software engineer a couple weeks ago. After a recent battle with unemployment (about 2 years), he's going back to school to get another degree. He told me that American software programmers/engineers are screwed right now, because they are offshoring all the jobs to countries where programmers will work for them for minimum wage. He told me that there are just no jobs for software programmers right now. I then told him that I had a friendly acquaintance who was in the field who was also suffering unemployment, and he urged me to tell you to get out now, to go back to school and get a new degree. He was so passionate about it that I actually ended up taking notes, but I don't have the notes with me right now. Apparently there was a story about it on Lou Dobbs on CNN, but I didn't get the opportunity to watch it.
By the way, I don't know if you got any of my Yahoo IM messages, but I lost your phone number a couple months ago...You should call me sometime.
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Just wasn't sure if you'd consider the job 'up to your standards' so to speak. *hugs*
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On the other hand, not being a 22-year-old who went to MIT doesn't necessarily make you incapable of doing good work. What kind of idiots are doing hiring these days? (And where did that joker go to school, I'd like to know!)
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He's got a pattern that works, and requires very little skill or effort. Can't say I would change things if I were in his shoes.
He's on top, so his schooling either "led to where he is" or is "an obstical he overcame". Yay for spin doctoring.
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By the way, I don't know if you got any of my Yahoo IM messages, but I lost your phone number a couple months ago...You should call me sometime.
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